Thursday, May 29, 2025 - President Donald Trump issued a series of pardons on Wednesday, May 28, and rapper NBA YoungBoy was one of the lucky prisoners to be pardoned.
The rapper, whose birth name is Kentrell Gaulden, took to
social media to show his gratitude.
“I want to thank President Trump for granting me a pardon
and giving me the opportunity to keep building — as a man, as a father, and as
an artist,” NBA YoungBoy said
He added in a statement posted to Instagram stories on
Wednesday. “This moment means a lot. It opens the door to a future I’ve worked
hard for and I am fully prepared to step into this.”
“I did not do the pardon application, but can confirm he was
pardoned,” Drew Findling, an attorney for NBA YoungBoy, tells Rolling
Stone.
In December 2024, the rap star pleaded guilty to one count
linked to his 2020 gun possession arrest in Louisiana and a separate count tied
to a more recent gun charge filed in Utah. Gaulden was sentenced to
23 months in federal prison with credit for time served dating back to at least
May 2024, when he was taken into custody following a raid on his Utah
residence.
On April 16, 2024, the 24-year-old Gaulden was arrested in
what prosecutors called a fraudulent prescription drug ring while he was
on house arrest in Huntsville, Utah for federal weapon charges. Ten days
later, additional charges related to the prescription fraud case were filed
against him, including a second-degree felony count of possession of a
dangerous weapon by a restricted person and two Class A misdemeanor counts of
distributing a controlled substance.
Gaulden admitted in a plea agreement that he was a felon in possession of a Masterpiece Arms 9mm gun and a .45 caliber Glock Model 21 pistol when he was arrested filming a music video outside his grandfather’s house in Baton Rouge on Sept. 28, 2020. The artist also said that he “knowingly possessed” the Sig Sauer 9mm semi-automatic pistol found in his Utah home where he was serving house arrest related to the pending Louisiana case.
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